In a cold February morning, COLABORAR and the Fraunhofer Portugal team met Mrs. ad Mr. Medeiros in their home for an interview/demo of the SmartCompanion, in the scope of their participation in the AAL4ALL Large Scale Trial.
The journalists of the Portuguese TV channel SIC arrived at the nice house and begun choosing the best angles to place the camera.
Mr. Fernando Medeiros showed how to use SmartCompanion for medication management, by receiving a medication reminder on the smartphone. Although Mr. Medeiros doesn’t feel like he needs notifications to remind him of his medication, he agrees that the feature is very helpful for some people. He also tried the intelligent fall detection feature and even simulated a near fall inside his home.
Mrs. Ludovina Medeiros shared with the journalists that while she was testing SmartCompanion for a period of two months, she benefited a lot from the activity monitor feature, that helped her stay more active as the application challenged her every day to achieve the activity goal considered healthy and by keeping her aware of her daily activity level.
In the end of the shooting, we enjoyed some delicious cookies from Gouveia (a city near Serra da Estrela), accompanied with Oporto wine – «it is a Portuguese home, indeed»!
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